Clear to Me

There's an awful lot that's weird about Ron Fournier's writeup of the Democratic presidential forum, but this is particularly weird:

"I think it's a position that John certainly has taken," she said, drawing laughter from the crowd. It was not clear whether the audience was laughing with her or at her.

I was in the room, and I promise you it was totally clear that the audience (myself included) was laughing with her. I'm genuinely baffled as to how there could be confusion about this: she made a joke and people laughed, including a lot of people who probably won't vote for her. It was, in the moment, pretty funny.

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